Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is a Filipino development consultant. She is an international indigenous activist of Kankana-ey Igorot ethnicity.[1][2] On 2nd of June, 2014, she took the responsibilities of the third UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.[3] As a UN special rapporteur, she investigated alleged violations of indigenous peoples rights. She also promoted the regulation of international standards focusing on the rights of indigenous peoples.[2] She held her special rapporteur position until March 2020.[4]
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz | |
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| Born | October 19, 1952 |
| Nationality | Filipino |
She is the indigenous and gender adviser to the Third World Network. She is a member of United Nations Development Programme Civil Society Organizations Advisory Committee.[5] She is also a member of the World Future Council.
Tauli-Corpuz was the chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2005-2010).[6] She was the rapporteur for the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations.[2][5]
Early life and career change
She completed her graduation from the Philippine Science High School in Diliman, Quezon City in 1969. She got her nursing degree at the UP College of Nursing, University of the Philippines Manila in 1976.[1]
Activism change
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz organized indigenous peoples on the community level to fight against the projects of then President Ferdinand Marcos. Her organised indigenous peoples stopped the Chico River Hydroelectric Dam project. It would have flooded the local villages and the logging operations of Cellophil Resources Corporation on the lands of their forefathers.[6]
Awards and Honours change
Tauli-Corpuz was the first recipient of the Gabriela Silang Award. It was given in 2009 by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples.[7]
Tauli-Corpuz was included in a list of 10 important people associated with scientific developments in 2021. The list was made by the scientific journal Nature.[8]
References change
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Member Info UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "OHCHR | Ms. Victoria Tauli Corpuz". www.ohchr.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-26. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
- ↑ James Anaya Victoria Tauli-Corpuz begins as new Special Rapporteur, 02 June 2014 Archived 10 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples". United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Administrator. "Biographical Information". unsr.vtaulicorpuz.org. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 IUCN World Conservation Congress (Jeju 2012) forum sessions Archived 2014-08-21 at the Wayback Machine International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ↑ IP int’l activitist gets 1st Gabriela Silang award Northern Dispatch (nordis) Weekly, Northern Philippines. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ↑ "Nature's 10 Ten people who helped shape science in 2021". Nature. Retrieved 19 December 2021.